Isley Brothers

If you’re reading this email I know you’re interested in record awards. I bet you have, or have seen, quite a few. Me too. But here’s something I’ve never seen before (put it in the category of awards trivia). A few weeks ago I posted an RIAA Isley Brothers gold award for one million sales for Fight the Power, but I also have a gold award for sales of 500,000. According to reader Brittany, “a RIAA 45 award in the floater era goes for 1 Million Sales and Platinum for 2 Million Sales. The 500,000 Plate shouldn’t exist and is a mistake which is why he was probably re-issued one with the correct plate.”

Here’s the award I posted certified for more than one million copies, made by authorized award manufacturer New York Frame & Picture Co… [click to continue…]

“The Isley Brothers seemed to have as many lives in their show-business career as a cat. They started out as a hit on the black rhythm & blues circuit and later parlayed that into broad success as rock artists. When things slowed down for them in the U.S. teen market in the mid-1960s, they moved […]

The Isley Brothers were a long-running influential group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law. In 1969 the Isley Brothers “It’s Your Thing” rose to #2 on Billboard’s Top 100 and became the first of many hits and gold records. In April of 1978 they released the album “Showdown” which went gold […]

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